advertising is required in current world.
The world which cannot alive without "women intim products" ads have many reasons why so fast developing company as Intel need to advertise.
If they will not, somebody else will. Without ads the average Joe will not know there there is something to change his PIII 700 MHz for on the market, will never know difference between garage PC and high quality laptop, etc.

There are no bad and good guys in Capitalism. Everybody works for moneys and fame.Reply

AMD is on a much tighter budget. That means they have to choose between spending money on a competitive product, or spending money on advertising. I wouldnt be suprised if Intel's advertising budget is bigger than that of AMD's entire processor division.Reply

AMD ususally has some sort of meeting around IDF. This year they didnt unveil anything new, just had lots of dual core computers running. Apparently production models too, it came out that AMD's dual core speeds will start at 2.4GHz, maybe higher (for reference, a single core 2.4GHz dual channel ddr/1MB L2 is AMD's 4000+ model). Reply

I'm starting to get worried though that my boyz down at AMD are slacking, seems like intel is working their asses off trying to catch back up and surpass AMD once again, and AMD just be chilling, basking in the success of A64. Then again, they also don't have the media/marketing circus that is IDF.Reply

I want HT enabled in each of the cores. I am willing to sacrifice a bit of battery life for that. Heck fuel cells are probably going to be a reality in the next couple of years. I would like 64 bit but I can live without it. As long as the proc can kick ass in games and apps I am cool.Reply

So, there will be no 64-bit support in Yonah. What will Intel do to support XP-64 and Longhorn when they do come out. Don't get me wrong I like the power management Yonah will offer. But, I'm not quite sure I will be considering to drop my Dothan for a Yonah. Since there will be no 64-bit support.Reply

#3: AMD have nothing prepared except some DTR processors. They offered nothing serious until now and this will not change soon.

#8: for what you need 64bit on notebook? You do not need it even on desktop and rarely on server! You will not be upcomming few years able to get any benefit from it. Even many AMD mainboards have still 4GB memory limit which is rearely to be seen on the desktop.Reply